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iCal - alarm problems after upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard.

I hope I'm not beating a dead horse, so here goes. I have read many postings on this site and other Mac support sites regarding the failure of iCal alarms to "go off". I had grown to be quite reliant on it for paying bills, b'days, Dr. appts, etc. In my case I'm not doing any syncing, just using it on my Mac mini. I have tried every fix I have come across, too many to list, with no permanent solution. I'm using iCal version 4.0.3.

I had been using iCal on my iMac PPC G5 with ultimately Tiger 10.4.11 since 2005. I never had a problem until I upgraded to an Intel Mac mini with Snow Leopard 10.6.4. It seems that most issues I had read about, but not all, were after users had upgraded from Tiger to Leopard/Snow Leopard. What makes it so maddening is that I haven't been able to find any pattern. Some alarms go off and others don't. I hate to think about buying software to replace it, but I can't trust it anymore.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,
Rob

Mac mini /2.53 GHz/4 GB/10.6.4, Mac OS X (10.6.4),  iMac PPC G5 10.4.11

Posted on Aug 20, 2010 2:17 PM

17 replies

Mar 11, 2012 9:27 AM in response to Robby W

I've been having the problem with no alarms in Lion and have finally resolved the problem. The suggestion to check preferences and the disable the alarms checkbox, it's not the only one. I have found that each calendar has the ability to disable it's own alarms. To check this, pull down the calendars and control-click the calendar that has your alarms. Then select "Get Info". You'll see that there's a disable alarms checkbox for each calendar. That was selected and fixed my problem,

I think this got checked when I was trying to set up sharing. One of the sharing option was to disable alarms. I didn't want my alarms going off on someone else's iCal, so I checked it.

Dec 9, 2012 8:45 AM in response to Robby W

I have tried every solution with no results. It's so simple!!! Go to your iCal prefs. Select Alerts. For every accounts you select NONE in the Events menu. Otherwise, the computer chooses for you and never remembers your choice.

iCal - alarm problems after upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard.